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It’s not always easy to engage a large audience interactively in a learning session. Yet we know that active learning and engagement improves understanding, prompts reflection, provides feedback so that the tutor can tune the content of the session, and has many other positive effects on learning. Asking questions however,

It’s amazing how much continuing professional development you can do for free. The web has always been a great place for sharing knowledge and expertise, and there are new ways to do this appearing all the time. It’s almost always the case that someone will have written a blog post

Tuesday 21st October 11 am – noon BST. Seminar title: Mobile technologies for education in development contexts – challenging the obvious, with John Traxler, Reader in Mobile Technology for e-Learning (School of Computing and IT, University of Wolverhampton). In the seminar John will talk about his work on mobile learning

Yesterday I posted on the Reach Further blog for Blog Action Day on how Online communities bring the world together to share I talked about ELKS, the community of expertise for the UN-GAID run by BDRA at the University of Leicester – a network for e-learning practitioners and researchers to

I’ve been {playing with} learning to use my new PDA/wonderphone: the HTC TyTN II (winner of several Best PDA and Smartphone awards). It has two cameras (both video cameras), voice recorder, music, Windows mobile with various programmes including Word, Bluetooth and wifi capability, synchs with my Outlook on the laptop

OK, so it’s taken me a while to make the decision! My colleague has purchased a Nokia 95 (as recommended in this blog by James Clay). I am about to play with this one, and if I like it I’ll buy it! HTC TyTN So I will soon be better-connected

Having just been interviewed about mobile learning for the new WolF project, I thought I’d jot down some of my thoughts! Good examples of mobile learning: There are several good examples of podcasting in the IMPALA project Students doing work-based learning and work placements benefit from mobile learning in a

I was looking through my notes from the ALT conference and realising that I hadn’t quite finished reflecting on the sessions. It seems unfair that the later sessions should miss out on reporting. I tried to attend some sessions that were relevant to my areas of expertise and some that

This is a 2D barcode of the URL of the ELKS community. Apparently these barcodes are all the range in Japan where people use their web-enabled mobile phones to read them and then surf to the URL. They are used, e.g., on a poster for a radio station to encourage

The session on mobile learning by Dr Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Dr John Cook, Professor Tom Boyle, Mr John Traxler was very interesting. Agnes and her colleagues were good presenters. I did, however, find my personal devil’s advocate surfacing. So much of mobile learning seems to be about the devices, and it